Staff hoop-pouch for high-speed-train staff systems.



No. 795,070. PATENTED JULY I8, 1905., W. A. D. SHORT. STAFF HOOP POUCH FOR HIGH SPEED TRAIN STAFF SYSTEMS.

APPLICATION TILED APR. 28, 1905.

Inventor '\/V, A ,JDuMEV sHon'r UNITED STATES Patented July 18, 1905;

PATENT QEEICE.

XVILLIAM A. DUDLEY SHORT, OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 795,070, dated July 18, 1905.

Application filed April 28, 1905. Serial No. 257,845.

To all whom/ it may concern.-

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM A. DUDLEY SHORT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lexington, in the State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stafi Hoop-Pouch for High- Speed-Train Staff Systems, of which the following is a specification, accompanied by drawings.

This invention relates to staff hoop-pouches for high-speed-train staff systems in which the staff and pouch are received by moving trains either from suitable cranes placed adjacent the track at suitable locations or from persons on the ground. The staff and pouch are delivered to the cranes or catchers along the track by devices on the engines.

This improved staff hoop-pouch is designed to facilitate the handling and delivery of the staff to trains at high speed and is used in connection with what are termed high-speed stafi" instruments.

The invention is an improvement over the usual staff hand-pouch which is used to deliver the staffs to trains; and it consists of a rubber pouch with a receptacle for carrying the staff in place.

Further objects of this invention will hereinafter appear; and to these ends the invention consists of a stafl hoop-pouch for carrying out the above objects embodying the features of construction, combinations of elements having the general mode of operation, substantially as hereinafter fully described and claimed in this specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view with the hoop disconnected. Fig. 2 is a plan view with the hoop connected. Fig. 3 is an edge View of a modification. Fig. 4 is a detail view.

According to this invention the staff hoop pouch consists of a hoop A, made of suitable flexible material, preferably rubber or rubber hose, the ends of which may be connected and disconnected. The hoop is also provided with suitable means, shown in this instance as a'receptacle B, for carrying the whole or a portion of the staff. The receptacle B is preferably made of a piece of hose or other suit- 5 ablernaterial of larger diameter than the hoop vided in the end adapted to register with the transverse hole G at the open end of the receptacle or connecting member B. A suitable cotter-pin may be thrust through said holes when the end of the hoop is inserted in the open end of the receptacle B to hold the ends together.

In Fig. 3 the brass ring E is placed a little farther from the extreme end of the hoop, so that there is only room in the receptacle for a half-staff when the ends of the hoop are to be connected.

This improved staff hoop-pouch is more easily received by trainmen or by catchers placed on the train than those heretofore devised, because the hoop is received over the arm, which permits a certain amount of leeway or inaccuracy in catching the hoop and enables the staff to be delivered to trains at high speed.

Obviously some features of this invention may be used Without others, and the invention may be embodied in widely-varying forms.

Therefore, without enumerating equivalents, I claim, and desire to obtain by Letters Patent, the following: I

1. A high-speed-train staff apparatus comprising a flexible hoop and a uniting member for the ends of the hoop forming a receptacle for the staff.

2. A high-speed-train staff apparatus comprising a flexible hoop and a uniting hollow member for the ends of the hoop forming a receptacle for the staff, the ends of the hoop being thrust into said member.

3. A high-speed-train staff apparatus comprising a flexible hoop and a uniting hollow member forming a receptacle for the staff, said member being fixed to one end of the hoop and the other member of the hoop being adapted to be removably secured to said mem- In testimony whereof I have signed this ber. specification in the presence of two subscrib- I0 4. A high-speed-train staflt' apparatus coming Witnesses.

prising a flexible hoop and a uniting hollow W A DUDLEY SHORT 5 member forming a receptacle for the staff,

said member being fixed to one end of the Witnesses: hoop and having an opening in its side to en- C. F. EVANS, able the staff to be seen. A. B. GARDNER. 

